Bill McClure, Dan Staples Get CAD Society Leadership Award
 DENVER, CO,
Apr 10, 2009 - The CAD Society today announced that Bill McClure and Dan
Staples, from Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge software team, are joint
winners of the CAD Society’s 2009 Leadership Award.
The CAD Society Awards acknowledge the contributions made by individuals that
have affected and developed the CAD, engineering, manufacturing and architecture
software industries. The Leadership award is presented for outstanding technical
and business leadership in the CAD industry, and focus and dedication to the
needs of CAD users.
Both Bill McClure and Dan Staples have been behind the CAD system known as
Solid Edge since it started as an R&D project in 1993. Then owned by Intergraph,
Solid Edge started life as ‘Project Jupiter’ and demonstrated some highly
innovative ideas in 3D, well before 3D on a PC was mainstream. The software was
sold to UGS in 1998, with both Bill and Dan staying on the Solid Edge team as
both its strategic and development leaders.
Solid Edge has remained a steady performer in the CAD industry for the last
ten years. However, last year, it was released with new design paradigm –
synchronous technology – the first history free feature based modeling
capability in the world, which was developed by a team at Siemens PLM Software
that included the Solid Edge team.
“The introduction of synchronous technology in Solid Edge caused the industry
to stop and stare,” says Ken Feitz, CAD Society Treasurer and Industry Veteran.
“While other 3D CAD systems have featured similar tools before, the whole issue
of combined persistent dimension driven and non-history-based 3D data in the
same model had been much ignored by the major CAD vendors. Synchronous
technology in Solid Edge represented a major turning point in the industry –
something we haven’t seen for many years.”
Continues Feitz, “We decided to award this to both Bill McClure and Dan
Staples, since their combined technical and business contribution to the
industry through Solid Edge continues to build and lead in the market. The CAD
Society is proud to recognize these gentlemen for their Leadership of the CAD
industry.”
“We really appreciate this recognition from the CAD Society and industry,”
said Bill McClure, vice president of Velocity Series product development,
Siemens PLM Software. “Dan and I are pleased to accept this award on behalf of
our whole development team and support staff as well as our loyal customer
community. We have always developed Solid Edge for engineers by engineers and
this has never been as evident as with the most recent release of Solid Edge
with synchronous technology. With this new history-less feature based approach
we look forward to keeping Solid Edge on the forefront of design technology for
years to come.”
“It is exciting that the industry sees the importance of moving forward and
innovating – not just accepting current limitations and levels of productivity,”
said Dan Staples, director of Solid Edge product development. “While much work
remains to be done to completely leverage synchronous technology throughout the
many areas it can be applied, I have no doubt that it will prove itself to be
ultimately the most productive way to model and revise designs.”
The awards will be presented at COFES
(Congress On the Future of Engineering Software), this year scheduled for April
16-19 2009 in Scottsdale, AZ. Past winners of this award include: Carl Bass, Jay
Sunyogh, Dana K. “Deke” Smith, Robert McNeel, Tony Affuso, Tom Butta, Jon
Hirschtick, and Bernard Charles.
About The CAD Society
The CAD Society is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of
fostering community and encouraging open communication among those who make
their living within the CAD industry including AEC, mechanical, manufacturing,
and GIS. The CAD Society is dedicated to creating an informative community and
improving the tools its members employ in order to get their jobs done. This is
achieved by providing an open forum of communication, which helps to illuminate
the practices of industry vendors. It has been a leader in creating
interoperability guidelines that encourage software vendors to develop
applications that can openly share data.
For more information, visit
www.cadsociety.org.
Note: Solid Edge and Velocity Series are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its
subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries.
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Additional News
Feb 25 - Nominations Sought for Annual CAD Society Awards
Apr 10 - Richard Sowar Gets CAD Society Lifetime Achievement Award
Apr 10 - Siemens McClure, Staples Share CAD Society Leadership Award
Apr 11 - CAD Society Launches Membership Campaign at COFES
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